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Hermang Mansilla wrote:
>
> I want to know which models of PCI Wireless Lan cards
> are supported

I have no experience with PCI wireless, so I can't
give you a definite answer; however, I do know that 
there are several wireless modules in PCMCIA directory
(at the BL3 site):
------------
airo.o
airo_cs.o
orinoco.o
orinoco_cs.o
wvlan_cs.o
------------
The modules with cs in the title are for PCMCIA.  It 
is possible that airo.o and orinoco.o will work with 
PCI.  It's worth a try.

I believe the airo module is for Aironet ARLAN 4500, 
4800, Cisco 340 and Cisco 350 series wireless cards.  
And the orinoco module is for Wavelan IEEE/Orinoco, 
PrismII and Symbol cards.

Again, I am not an expert on this, but a little trial
and error (and some googling) might get you there.
Please report back here what you find, either positive 
or negative.

> And which kernel has better support for them?

zimage, zimage.4dx, zimage.p1, zimage.p2, and zimage.big
are all 2.2.26 kernel and use the same modules.  It is
possible that a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel might have more modules
for wireless cards, but those bloated kernels are not
normally used for BasicLinux.

Cheers,
Steven